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Jan 12, 2013 / 9 notes

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
WB Yeats

Nov 12, 2012 / 3 notes

‘The minute I start writing, I fall asleep’ Australian playwright Lally Katz on keeping going. More of Lally, here. 

Oct 23, 2012

We thought it was a good idea to interview one of Australia’s leading playwrights about how to write a monologue. But he was very jetlagged and so a bit…unfocussed….

Yes!  Playwright Tommy Murphy will be mentoring LOVE BYTES winner Kim Ho to turn Kim’s 3 minute Transcendence into an 8 minute piece for later this year. 
Oct 9, 2012

Yes!  Playwright Tommy Murphy will be mentoring LOVE BYTES winner Kim Ho to turn Kim’s 3 minute Transcendence into an 8 minute piece for later this year

Jun 14, 2012 / 3 notes
Jun 11, 2012 / 1 note

As part of LOVE BYTES, our love monologue competition, check out Camilla Turnbull’s VELCRO.

Apr 26, 2012 / 289 notes

When You Are Old

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
Lucy Coleman as Julia and Meegan Warner in BOOT, by Joanna Erskine, in a film by Damien Power.
Apr 11, 2012
From BAT EYES, after WB Yeats, as part of THE VOICES PROJECT 2012.
Apr 8, 2012 / 4 notes
BAT EYES, after WB Yeats’ ‘When you are old and grey’
Apr 6, 2012 / 15 notes